Nobody is exempt from saying stupid things, the harm is to do it presumptuously.
Michel de MontaigneIf to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.
Michel de MontaigneThe receipts of cookery are swelled to a volume, but a good stomach excels them all; to which nothing contributes more than industry and temperance.
Michel de Montaigne